Year-End Review: Do You Love Your Work?

As the year winds down, self-reflection picks up. We ask ourselves: What have I achieved this year? What impact am I having on people and the planet, if any at all? What legacy am I leaving?

Is questioning our vocation a frivolous holiday sentiment, brought on by the gloomy dark of December? Hardly. Amy Wrzesniewski, an associate professor of organizational behavior at Yale who writes about the meaning of work, says: “What your work means to you matters for how you experience not just your work, but your life as a whole.”